S. 2 Episode 8: Making Time and Space for Creativity
A Conversation with Musicians Gloria Lemus-Chávez and Brandon Kane
Description:
Gloria Lemus-Chávez and Brandon Kane are musicians living in upstate New York. They are also domestic partners with full-time jobs, kids, and all the responsibilities (and distractions) of a modern adult life. Listen to this conversation exploring how they make time and space for creative pursuits, why it’s important, and the meaning it brings to their lives and to their relationships.
Brandon’s musical debut was around 1994, with legendary crust-influenced, melodic hardcore punk band from Philadelphia, Dissucks. He was the bass player for the band and wrote music and lyrics for many of the band’s songs. After a couple of EPs and compilation releases, Dissucks disintegrated around 1998. He then was in discussion to form a band with a few of the members from the European crust-punk scene, but that project never took off. His artistic career was put on hold for a while, resuming around 2009 when he joined black/doom metal band, Lux Carentes, based in upstate NY. They released a demo and an EP in 2010. Additional artistic projects he worked on included his duo band, What Two Left, also based in Upstate NY. They released their first album – Share Psychosis in May of 2016. They released two more digital albums before folding in 2017.
Although Gloria’s artistic endeavors began at a fairly young age, the release of Seasons In Sorrow, in April of 2020, marks her musical debut. Gloria, a native from México, was engaged in creating and performing various forms of art in her youth including dancing, theater acting/performing, painting/drawing, singing, and music playing. Later on, Gloria was part of several local theater productions on which she either acted, produced, or did a combination of both. It wasn’t until later years when she began writing her own music and lyrics, yet these were put away until 2018, when her collaboration with The Mourning Party started.
Topics
.Balancing responsibilities and the call to create
.Carving time and space for creativity
.Setting healthy boundaries with family members
.Healing trauma through making music
.Relationship to fear, the inner critic, and resistance
.Cultivating presence through the body
.Self-compassion as necessary for creative spirit
.Creative collaborations as intimate partners
Episode 8 Notes and Resources:
-Listen to Gloria and Brandon’s music here: https://themourningparty.com/
@gloria_lemus_chavez, FB: https://www.facebook.com/gloria.lemus.chavez15
Brandon Kane on FB: https://www.facebook.com/brandon.kane.56211
-The Mourning Party - Seasons in Sorrow album REVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4SwTZfZDq0
-The Mourning Party Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IOuV8DF92Y
-Podcast: Someone Who Isn’t Me: episode 33 Grant Morrison
-Sounds True course: Living from a Place of Surrender: The Untethered Soul in Action by Michael A Singer
-The song at the end of this episode performed by Gloria and Brandon is a simple personal arrangement from the song “Esclavo y amo” written by José Vaca Flores first released and made famous by a Mexican musician, Javier Solis, in 1962
-Podcast intro music from Bensound.com
-This episode was edited and mixed by Chad Clarke, chadtheva@gmail.com
